• toynbee@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    When I was a kid, I heard two unsubstantiated rumors about McDonald’s food:

    1. It used kangaroo meat (not sure why this was a claim)
    2. It mixed in nicotine (to make the food more addictive)

    I doubt that either are true, but if the latter were maybe it would answer your question.

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      16 days ago

      Pretty sure you’d have to label nicotine content and age restrict it no matter how it’s consumed.

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        15 days ago

        Agreed, but I don’t think the urban legend was claiming that they were doing this legitimately.

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      17 days ago

      They don’t mix in nicotine, no need for all of that when MSG exists. They do mix in MSG to the meats and cheeses. Pretty much all fast food does, because it makes it addictive, and tasty.

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        17 days ago

        When I was a kid, I don’t think I knew what MSG was, so this reasoning would have been lost on me.

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          17 days ago

          When I was a kid the racist “MSG in Chinese food” panic was happening. I knew about Chinese salt when I started cooking around 6 or 7

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            11 days ago

            Having a reaction to a food additive is not racist. You are parroting the bots spread forth by a $7B industry. MSG reaction is real. Do we call people who get food allergies racist?

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              11 days ago

              Yet, everyone I know that had so called reactions to MSG in Chinese food could eat Pizza Hut and McDonald’s which both use MSG and they never had a ‘reaction.’

              They also haven’t complained about MSG since the late '80s. There may be some people that have an actual allergy to MSG, but I have yet to meet one, and I have a much higher sampling of people to pull from than most.